TESTING THE EFFECT OF DEFAULTS ON THE THERMOSTAT SETTINGS OF OECD EMPLOYEES.

The article focuses on a study which assessed the role of default in an environmentally relevant field setting using employees at an Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) country, to see how default thermostat setting affected occupants' chosen temperature settings over a 6 week period. Results showed that small reductions in the defaults of office thermostats can lead to lower temperature settings by occupants in the winter heating season.